Culture & History Editor
Beat: Whale Watching, Beaches, Best Time to Visit
Nadia writes the Cape's older layers: Hawthorne's art school and the Provincetown painters, Marconi's wireless masts on the Wellfleet bluff, Sandwich glass, and the Kennedy summers in Hyannis Port. She has catalogued for a county historical collection, prefers a primary source to a plaque, and will tell you when a landmark's story has been tidied up for visitors.
2 guides · 1 news post
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Long-form
Reported guides to Cape Cod, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
Guide
Three thousand six hundred people in February and sixty thousand in August, at the end of a road with no alternative. How you arrive decides how much of the day you keep.
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Guide
The Cape's weather is ordinary New England weather. What is not ordinary is how completely the place shuts, and how much of the year sits outside the season.
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News desk
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in Cape Cod.
How this was written. News published under Nadia Petrakis's byline was drafted by machine from primary sources — operator notices, government and municipal releases, published schedules — and every factual claim in it was matched to one of those sources before it published. A Cape Cod Guide editor can change or pull any of it. Our editorial standards.
Reopening
The Cape comes back in stages rather than all at once, and April is the first of them. The fish arrive before the restaurants do.